OSHA, Public Advocacy Groups Clash On Proposed Rule Change
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says it plans to rescind part of its 2017 record-keeping regulation to protect the privacy of employees hurt on the job — though not everyone is happy about the idea.
OSHA has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) “to better protect personally identifiable information or data that could be re-identified with a particular individual by removing provisions of the ‘Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses’ rule,” the agency said in a release.